Q&A: Using a professional geneologist to see if I am eligible for citizenship in Europe?
Question by Josué M: Using a professional geneologist to see if I am eligible for citizenship in Europe?
All professional genealogists seem expensive, but they all seem to work on “family trees” and similar things, I only want to find out if I am eligible for citizenship in Europe from descent, I don’t care about getting a “family tree” or finding out anything else really. Is there some professional genealogist who can do this? and who is not so expensive like the $ 1000 I am seeing everywhere?
Yes, Italy is 1 I am looking at, I already know the requirements so now I just need to find documents.
Best answer:
Answer by wendy c
Genealogists..PROFESSIONAL OR OTHERWISE…use documentation to define who you are in fact descended from. Hate to tell you, but that is exactly what is needed for you to apply for Italian citizenship. Apparently, you have not identified any of your ancestors, or you should already know that your gr grandfather (for example) was born in Italy. Or, are you just HOPING for an ancestor who was born in Italy? Either way involves tracing your ancestry.
No, you certainly don’t need a professional to do this, just need to understand what you need to find out (instead of rejecting it).
If your Italian gr grandfather was the immigrant..and he applied for naturalization, then he DID renounce his citizenship in Italy.
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putting this more simply…you must have a “family tree” which is nothing more than knowledge of who your ancestors are, with specific records to validate it. Those are the documents.
For the majority of Americans, you should be able, at minimal cost, to identify your parent/grandparent, who were born prior to 1940, thus they can be found in that census. USING THAT.. you can, again, for little or no cost, “work” to the 1900 census, which is available, free, at www.familysearch.com. That (original, full image) census entry would tell you..the place of birth of that person, approx date of birth, and the birth place of his/her parents. Depending on your particular facts (ie, your parents are American born), any of the regulars here can find this info in maybe 30 minutes or less. If parents are born elsewhere, then this doesn’t apply.
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